In times of the most solemn emotion, Hawaiians slipped into Pidgin English, gabbling sententiously, and though they found this lingo more neighborly -- more tragic for its realism -- it just made me smile and say, Oh, cut it out.

Hood and somehow not places like Sidwell, Dalton, St Albans, Crossroads High, etc., then exactly the same set of Elite Narrative Commentators will sententiously ask why government and officialdom ignored all the warning signs.

For instance, I like the weird-tales fiction of H.P. Lovecraft, I really do, but recognize that many intelligent people find him unreadable — sententiously overwrought and cheesy, a purveyor of altogether too much eldritch ichor.